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EDM Council Board of Directors Elect Citi’s Bottega Chairman
Fifteen global financial services institutions have elected to join the EDM Council’s board of directors. As part of the expansion, the new board has elected John Bottega, chief data officer, Citi Markets & Banking, as its chairman. Bottega succeeds Mike Meriton, CEO, GoldenSource, and founding member of the EDM Council in the role of chairman….
CB.Net Adds SCT Data to BankSearchPlus
The European Payments Council (EPC) SEPA Credit Transfer Adherence Register of Participants is now available in CB.Net’s BankSearchPlus and in The S€PA Directory service it launched in partnership with LogicaCMG. CB.Net was chosen by the EPC to provide and manage the centralised repository for the EPC SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) and SEPA Direct Debit (SDD)…
CMA Names Paul Vickery Director, Support, Client Services
CMA, provider of credit information, has appointed Paul Vickery as director of support and client services, with a brief to enhance the service CMA provides to its global client base. Vickery joins CMA from GFI, where he was global support and professional services manager.
PolarLake, CounterpartyLink Forge Alliance as PolarLake Adds Business Analyst Integration
Provider of reference data distribution products PolarLake and client and legal entity data specialist CounterpartyLink have entered into an alliance with the aim of better meeting the needs of mutual clients and prospects. John Randles, CEO of PolarLake, says while the PolarLake RDD (Reference Data Distribution) product “works with all forms of reference data”, the…
Swift Shifts Reference Data Strategy Personnel
Swift has made some changes to the personnel handling its reference data strategy. The co-operative has appointed Paolo Bernini head of information products of which reference data is an important component, it says. Peter O’Keefe meanwhile has moved from product management to markets, with responsibility for defining Swift’s reference data strategy – with a particular…
We’re loud and we’re proud
In preparing for our excellent and very well received Reference Data Review @ FIMA online daily news service for the FIMA 2007 event in London earlier this month, we interviewed some of the data management movers and shakers who were set to speak at the conference to find out how they were feeling about the…
Citadel Signs Principal Global to Data Management Platform
Principal Global Investors has selected CADIS from Citadel Associates as its global data management platform. Principal Global Investors manages $244.9 billion in assets primarily for retirement plans and other institutional clients and is a member of the Principal Financial Group. With CADIS, Citadel’s component-based platform for the management of corporate data – version 5 of…
DIFC Bags SmartStream Technology For Hosted Data, Processing Offering
The acquisition of UK mid and back office systems vendor SmartStream for £200 million by the Dubai International Financial Centre (DFIC) – owner of the Dubai Stock Exchange – made headlines for a number of reasons. Not the least of these was the fact that the acquisition came just a month after SmartStream was forced…
Hong Kong’s CLSA Picks Coexis Syn~ for Enterprise Ref Data Management, Back Office Replacement
London and New York-based technology vendor Coexis has signed a global contract with Hong-Kong based investment bank CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets for the deployment of Coexis’ Syn~ for enterprise-wide reference data management and securities processing. Syn~ will be the primary processing system for CLSA Transaction Management at its Global Operations Centre in Singapore. Syn~ will then…
Reuters Adds OTC Equity Options Prices to DataScope Select
In its third quarterly release this year of its hosted data management and extraction platform DataScope Select, Reuters has incorporated what it says are significant enhancements to the solution in the areas of OTC equity options pricing and counterparty data. The evaluated pricing services within Reuters DataScope Select have been extended with the provision of…